Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-05
NOVEL USES OF PAPER.
Building OF Paper Boats and Making
OF Paper Car Wheels-An Interest,
Ing Process OF Manufacture.
The Real Service of a Paper Car wheel.
Straw Lumber and Its Uses.
Bags and Boxes
E.R. Bowker in Harpsr's Magazine.

under the patent, recently expired, of +
Waters. These bosts are made Of an
ordinary MANILA paper of good caality,
usually in five thicknesses, in all one
sixteenth of an inch thick, except in
parts where there is the Reimbursement
of one or two extra strips. The process
q making them Is simple. The cost is
something above that of wood Not only
is travelling by water Indebted to paper,
but travelling By land. \ paper car
wheel seems even more contra
dictiOn OF terms;than paDer bOst,yet it is
now generally acknowledged to 5e better,
safer and longer lived than one altogether
of metal. 1t was the invention OF Eicn-
ard II. Allen, Z locomotive engineer, at
terward master mechanic of the C!eve-
lsnd and Toledo Railroad who took for
his sim N life the production Of 8 better
car wheel than those in use.
1t is the body Of the wheel only whiCh
is of paper. The material Is 4 ca.enGered
rye straw "bOard" or thick
paper made st the Allen C1mpauv's
mills. This Is sent 20 the works in
circular sheets Of twenty-Oue 10 forty
incEes in diameter. Two men standing
by s pile Of these rapidly brush over caCh
sheet Oh even coating Ct .!uIr paste until
dOZsd are pasted i'll layer y third
man transfers these layers to : hydraulic
press, where 9 pressure Of 500 tons or
more is supplied TO 3 pile Ci them, the
layers being kept distinct by the 81
sence Of paste between the outer sheets.
After sOhdifYing under this pressure for
! tz4d hours. the twelve sheet layers are
Kept for 8 week IN drying room a. I20
Fahrenheit: several of these LAYERS are il,
turD res,e.t together. pressed ami dried
for 9 second week. ana still sqafn these
disks are nas+et. pressed and GIVEN
q t1lrd driving Of q whole month
The result il . circulsr rIock. conts1nIuo
from 100 10 $50 sheets Of the original ne
MGR con0rassed 10 five qrd a 1aIfo~ fGur
ana g half inches thickness, and q solid
itv. density and WEIGHT s1rgestino meta,
rEtber than H5er.
The teDsDer wheel, is made nm of this
disk OF compressed p.per, surrounded 1v
= steel tire and lifted with a east iron
hu5. which is bored for the awe. wrought
iron plates protect the paper disk ON
either side. and eli arc 50Ited tooalher nv
two circles of bolts. one set passing
through fgnge OF the tire. the other
| throu01 9 farce of the hu5. and both
( tfrouGh the Dqoar center and its protect
I ing plates.
/ The real service Of the naoer is in in
/ ternOsirq 2 non-yi0rstiua substance be-
/ tween the axle and the lire so mat the
vibrations. which i'm some unknown wav
rearranoe the atoms OF metal So that il
b~itt}es and breaks after iono wear. are
prevented. Nature slwsvs provides some
wav Of wearing thinrs ont. whether +. be
man. lest he lag suDertfuous ON the stage
or the uaverlastino hiIIsu themselves. In,
in tre case of compressed paDar.srt seem.
tn have GOT shaad OF nature. for il seems
not tn wear ont at all. The steel tires OF
these wheels Go wesr down. sDd ar,
then returned i'm q lqthe ~ smaller
diameter. but wAen thev are cone an,
are taken Of, the paper block appear
eosfn - GOOD IS new. and ready f1r
new tire. Tae psper whee. has the ON
DISADVANTAGE Of greater cost. but II
LONGER life and Greater safety sre in il
favor.
uS}raw lumber.O so caIred. is q stu,flq
enolicatfnn of paDqr for hriIdinr uur
noses. It's used. mot for nOsts ar beams
hur in Mace Of Istb and plaster. 70
saeat7inG. etc. AD ordinary nstray
roardU naDzr is msdr. on the ryIinde
machine - the refuse bedding O
sfatles being very largely utilize
az Ine material aDd is IN
4arcug7 a VET of resin and Othe
v-gterDrOOt'nc material heated IN $50 !
4 n.mhe- Of sheets sre then pIeced IN
oe,her between metal plates, snd sub
i4cted like tine Ger wheels 10 e1or9cu
pressure in Il hvdrauIic press. The resu-
j. q very hard and solid bIgcklsl goarC
about three-sixteentbs of an inch t1icE
which can be cut with 8 saw or chfse.
and j. marketed in slabs twelve feet b
thirtv-tw0 inches. at 3 price Of about s
per 1000 feet. This is now in use ais
for the interior of railway cars and fC
perforated chair seats. building pa
3eru Of the ordinary sort is g c0gr.
pqper straw or waste used f.
shaetiDg or lining wooden house
II wss pue 10 good use Immediate
after the Chicago fire, when g wa5ter
paper company Iired the 10000 house
lex29. when we're run up to accommc
date the homeless, with This material, 8
q cost OF IS for each house.
The non-coaducting quality OF pape
has caused curious DEVELOPMENT
America Of the paper box industry,
thgt the lever of oysters may "take hon
fry in box'' to keep it hot, or q brio
of ice cream to keep it cool. The Gu
nese and Japanese are said to make .
Der clothes, and their handkerchief
and NAPKINS are well known to US, br
American achievements in this directil
have been confined chiefly to paDer CO
lars. cuffs and "Dosoms,n sometim
nitb 6acI-inat ~ cIoth Jybicb 1,ev
nasted on after making. but which